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Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSteerforth Press

ISBN-101782272712

ISBN-139781782272717

eBay Product ID (ePID)235436026

Product Key Features

Book TitleRecord of a Night Too Brief

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Magical Realism, Asian / Japanese

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorHiromi Kawakami

Book SeriesJapanese Novellas Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5.2 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"At once funny and humane. . . the author's estranging fiction is bewitching. If Japan were in need of a Lewis Carroll, look no further." -- South China Morning Post

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number3

Dewey Decimal895.636

SynopsisAkutagawa Prize-winning stories about unsettling loss and romance from one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary writers--for fans of Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing. Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales. "Talking animals, transformations into trees and horses, and a melancholic mood of loss and love make it easy to see why Kawakami is one of the more exciting voices in contemporary Japanese literature." --Thrillist, The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers., The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers. One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother... So begins the story of a woman trying to live with a snake, with herself - or perhaps with something else altogether. This volume includes the three stories Tread on a Snake, Missing and Record of a Night Too Brief which together won the Akutagawa Prize in 1996. Filled with fantastically multicoloured images and unexplained collapses in time and place, these highly surreal, meticulously worked stories of longing and disappearance, love and loathing are the work of an enormously talented writer at the top of her game., The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing. In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance. In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing. Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales.

LC Classification NumberPL855.A859